The Bengals announced the signing of linebacker Kevin Minteron Monday morning. It’s a one-year deal worth roughly $4.5MM, per Ian Rapoport of NFL.com and Jim Owczarski of the Cincinnati Enquirer (Twitterlinks). While the Bengals were willing to give Minter a lengthier contract, Minter wants the opportunity to hit the 2018 free agent market, tweets Owczarski.

Minter has started all 32 games over the past two seasons, and played the most snaps (1,003) of any Cardinals linebacker in 2016. In that time, he racked up 81 tackles, 3.5 sacks, and four passes defensed while grading as the league’s No. 25 linebacker, per Pro Football Focus.

6 comments on “Bengals Sign Kevin Minter”

Get over the o line deal. I love Whitworth and Zeitler but whitworth was old and Zeitler was over priced for a guard. I will make a prediction right now- DAlton will get sacked less in 2017 than he did last year.

They will be lucky to win 6 games again, they won’t ever do what it takes to win a super bowl, but you can keep kidding yourself if you want!! Zeitler wouldn’t of cost as much if you lock him up before he’s able to hit free agency!!

We will see. They drafted the two young tackles to replace those guys. Have a little faith. Again. Dalton will not get sacked more next year. And if the D is better “and it will be” the pressure will be off the line. Defense wins championships